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Version 50 of Google’s popular Chrome web browser was recently promoted to the stable channel for Windows, Linux and Mac. The latest iteration is noteworthy for the simple fact that what’s been taken away is arguably more important than the…

When Windows 10 was released on July 29 last year, it was hailed as the best operating system to come from Microsoft in a long time. Now, six months after its release, the latest iteration of Windows has finally passed…

Google has announced that Chrome support for Windows XP among others will finally end in April 2016. The other platforms include Windows Vista, OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, OS X 10.7 Lion, and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

The leaks continue to flow out of Mountain View. The latest information on Huawei's Nexus 6P, the larger and presumably more expensive of the two Nexus devices Google is expected to announce next week, comes from a public image gallery...

In the beginning of June, the U.S. Navy reportedly signed a $30.8 million contract with Microsoft to keep supporting PCs that run Windows XP at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, according to PC World. The U.S. Navy will…

A Russian hacking group has been exploiting a security flaw in Microsoft Windows to spy on NATO, the Ukrainian government, the European Union, an American academic organization, and companies in telecommunications and energy sectors, according to cyber intelligence firm iSight…

According to early results from IDC, consumer interest in the traditional PC is once again picking up. The market research firm found global PC shipments only dropped 1.7 percent year-over-year during the second quarter, from 75.7 million to 74.4 million.…

Microsoft officially pulled support for Windows XP last month but a new registry hack allows users to continue to receive updates for the dated operating system. It essentially tricks the updater into installing patches intended for a similar operating system.

Following the discovery of a critical, 0-day vulnerability affecting all versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft has decided to release an emergency update that addresses the security issue. The patch has been issued for all of Microsoft's recent operating systems including…

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service, which is supposed to get paid this time of year, will be shelling out millions of dollars to Microsoft for extended Windows XP support, according to a ComputerWorld report.

Comcast and proposed merger partner Time Warner Cable claim they don’t compete because their service areas don't overlap, and that a combined company would happily divest itself of a few million customers to keeps its pay-TV market share below 30%, allowing other companies that don't...

After what has felt like an eternity, Microsoft has finally ended all forms of official support for Windows XP, more than 12 years after the operating system launched, and still with a significant portion of users globally.

Just a few days after the UK government signed a £5.548 million deal with Microsoft for a year’s worth of Windows XP support, the government of the Netherlands has signed another multi-million Euro deal with the company for continued support…

London Borough of Barking and Dagenham is all set to roll out Google Chromebooks in the wake of Microsoft’s Windows XP support cut-off, according to a V3 report. The council, which was previously using 3,500 Windows XP desktops and 800…

A number of financial firms and ATM operators are considering a move to Linux as Microsoft’s April 8 end-of-support date for Windows XP is quickly approaching. Migrating to the open source OS would reportedly give operators more control over both…

Anti-virus specialist Malwarebytes announced today its new Anti-Malware Premium suite. According to the company, the suite will provide lifetime support to XP users, which still make up 20 percent of its user base. The news comes just a week after…

Microsoft is sweetening the pot in hopes of getting holdouts to switch from their dated Windows XP machine to something a bit more modern. Last week, the Redmond-based company offered a $50 gift card to those purchasing a Windows 8.1…

Despite the fact that a sizable number of people still run Windows XP, Microsoft is preparing to discontinue general support for the aging operating system on April 8, 2014. And starting March 8, the Redmond-based company will remind XP Home…

While Apple has been under fire as of late with regards to security flaws in both iOS and OS X, the company has generally been well regarded with respect to the safety of its platforms. However, a report from ComputerWorld…

It’s interesting just how many of the world’s important computers still run on ancient software. Case in point – roughly 95 percent of automated teller machines around the globe are powered by Windows XP, an operating system that was released…

Microsoft has announced plans to continue to support Windows XP anti-malware efforts through mid-April 2015. The company is still moving forward with plans to discontinue general support for the aging operating system this April, however.

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday yielded an interesting security fix for a glaring vulnerability in how the Windows kernel handles USB device enumeration. The critical vulnerability allowed potential hackers with physical access to a Windows PC to run arbitrary code with system…

It was recently revealed that Windows 8 was running on 1.64 percent of all computers worldwide as of December according to data from Net Applications. Here we are just a couple of weeks later and that figure has already jumped…

Microsoft recently received some promising news in terms of market share as both Windows 7 and Windows 8 saw notable gains as 2012 came to a close. According to Net Applications, Windows 8 gained 0.66 percentage points in December, bringing…